A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.,

World War II: GeneralDouglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the Battle of the Philippines (1942), in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".,